{"id":20033300,"date":"2020-05-06T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=33300"},"modified":"2020-12-02T21:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T16:22:53","slug":"highway-widening-to-kashmir-is-killing-the-chenab-and-tawi-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/water\/highway-widening-to-kashmir-is-killing-the-chenab-and-tawi-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Road builders in Jammu & Kashmir flout court orders over river dumping"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Udhampur to Banihal highway, the shortest route connecting the\u00a0Kashmir\u00a0valley to the rest of India, is being expanded. But this is occurring at the expense of the Chenab and Tawi\u00a0rivers.<\/p>\n

On March 17, 2020, a National Green Tribunal (NGT) monitoring committee submitted a report<\/a> about the dumping of soil and other waste in Jammu\u2019s Chenab and Tawi rivers, following an earlier order<\/a> issued by the court to investigate allegations that “muck and debris continues to be dumped into the river without any safeguards” despite the NGT’s earlier directives.<\/p>\n

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Picture from the 17 March 2020 NGT report<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The case pertains to a complaint lodged in 2016 that in the process of expanding the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway (NH-44) to four lanes from Udhampur to Banihal, there is \u201crampant dumping of soil in Chenab and Tawi rivers\u201d by Gammon Engineers and Contractors Private Limited (GECPL) and the Hindustan\u00a0Construction Company Limited (HCC), the firms engaged by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for the execution of the project.<\/p>\n

Following this complaint, the NGT ordered in 2019 that the companies deposit a sum of INR 20 million (USD 264,800) each (INR 10 million towards compensation and INR 10 million as a performance guarantee towards improving the situation) with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).<\/p>\n

The NGT also constituted a monitoring committee to provide oversight and suggestions about identifying and maintaining dumping sites. The committee’s suggestions were issued as an advisory to the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Government, the NHAI and the companies.<\/p>\n

Current status of debris dumping on Tawi and Chenab<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe highway has three sections \u2013 section A is from Udhampur to Chenani, section B is from Nashri to Ramban and section C is from Ramban to Banihal\u201d explained Brij Mohan Sharma, Member Secretary, Pollution Control Board, Jammu and Kashmir. The stretch from Chenani to Nashri is through a tunnel. The banks of the Tawi fall in section A while Chenab flows through sections B and C.<\/p>\n

Work in the first two segments is being executed by GECPL and in the Ramban-Banihal segment by HCC.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout 80% of the work has already been completed on section A and right now the problem is with sections B and C,\u201d Sharma said. He added that the Tawi and its banks were also being used as dumping sites when construction activities were being undertaken at a larger scale during the initial stages of work on section A.<\/p>\n

The March 17 report states that along section B, although many alternate dumping sites were identified, \u201clarge scale violations\u201d in terms of both debris disposal and maintenance of dumping sites are underway.<\/p>\n

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Picture from the 17 March 2020 NGT report<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While sites with available capacity have been abandoned, the muck is being dumped in sites which \u201chave already attained their full capacity and are overflowing,\u201d the report said. Additionally, it noted that \u201cillegal dumping is being done at four non-designated sites where the muck is directly thrown down the hill slopes into Chenab river\u201d and that three other sites are being used for dumping debris without formal allotment and preparation of these sites as dumping sites.<\/p>\n

What makes matters worse it that section B and C are \u201ctopographically very fragile and landslides occur frequently even with small thundershowers,\u201d Sharma explained. \u201cThere was a lot of rainfall and landslide last monsoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

NH-44 passes through the Outer Himalayas to the Greater Himalayas and so the region has varying hill slopes and strata conditions that make it especially venerable to geological disturbances \u2013 whether manmade or natural. The Himalayas, the world\u2019s youngest mountain chain and still growing, is relatively \u201cfragile\u201d, and more prone to earthquakes and landslides than older mountain chains.<\/p>\n

As for section C, the report states that construction work has largely been disturbed by regular landslides where debris-clearing activity is leading to the dumping of muck downhill into unauthorised dumping sites.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the report also notes that some of the landslides that brought construction activity to a halt might have occurred because of the construction activity itself. In fact, an environmental audit<\/a> of the National Highway conducted by a team of scientists in July 2019 following an NGT order had noted that hillside slopes in the region have \u201cbecome unstable due to cutting during widening\u201d and that the dumping of muck consisting of stones and boulders are threatening the survival of vegetation and biodiversity in the concerned sites.<\/p>\n

The March 17 report calls for an immediate stop to all such violations by GECPL and HCC.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, I have a letter from the district office to levy a compensation according to the orders of the NGT,\u201d Sharma said. \u201cI have issued show cause notices to the highway authority (NHAI) and to the two companies asking them to explain why an environmental compensation should not be levied.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have also written letters asking them to quantify the violations in terms of quantum of debris dumping into rivers but they have not come forward with this data. We need this data to calculate how much compensation should be levied,\u201d Sharma added.<\/p>\n

Calls have been made to NHAI\u2019s site office in Jammu and emails have been sent to both GECPL and HCC requesting an interview with the concerned person(s). There has been no response so far. This report will be updated if and when a response is received.<\/p>\n

There are many instances of similar problems created by irresponsible roadbuilding in the Himalayas.<\/p>\n

See<\/strong>: Highway project poses grave danger to Himalayas: a multimedia report<\/a><\/p>\n

Sewage dumping on Tawi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apart from debris-dumping concerns, other sections of the Tawi are polluted too. Most specifically, the section of Tawi that flows in Prem Nagar in Jammu is heavily polluted with both garbage and sewage.<\/p>\n

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Black kites circling overhead Tawi River in Prem Nagar [image by: Rishika Pardikar]<\/figcaption><\/figure>“The large presence of black kites here [the stretch of the Tawi River near Prem Nagar] suggests that there is a lot of dead organic matter which the kites are feeding on,” said Uqab Ali Baba, a research scholar at the Centre for Research and Development, University of Kashmir. “Sewage from nearby localities flows directly into the river.”<\/p>\n

“In the last few years, the usage of plastic and styrofoam has gone up a lot and segregation of waste is not happening,” said O.P. Sharma, who previously worked with the Department of Ecology Environment and Remote Sensing, J&K. “This waste gets dumped into the river and also, drains that carry sewage water are emptied into the river without treating it first.”<\/p>\n

A\u00a0paper<\/a> written by Uqab on the water quality of the Tawi specifically addresses\u00a0how bad the quality of water is in terms of dissolved oxygen, turbidity and toxicity.<\/p>\n

The paper said Prem Nagar is the worst affected of the six sites studied, due to heavy inflow of sewage from surrounding residential areas and hotels. Uqab called for proper management and planning of municipal and domestic sewage for local health and hygiene requirements and to ensure a sustainable environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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